differential definition

differential

General: Difference between comparable classes, entities, or items (such as costs and revenues) that change in quality, quantity, and degree at different rates between alternative courses of action.

Securities trading: Extra charge (typically 0.5 of a point or ¢12½ per share) added to the purchase price or subtracted from the selling price by a broker or dealer for odd lot (less than a round lot or standard trading unit) stock transactions. Also called odd lot differential.

differential is in the Accounting & Auditing and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.

differential appears in the definitions of the following terms: leapfrogging, price fixing, chaos, odd lot, broadbanding, relevant cost, spread option, odd lot differential and law of one price

differential appears in these other terms: differential advantage, differential accounting, occupational differentials, differential backup, yield differential, differential rate, differential cost, differential analysis, differential pricing

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